We're on wakeup #3..and the last two have been within the last hour. I finally put him in his bed with his water because I'm just so tired I just need him to sleep. Hopefully he'll settle down soon.

I'm learning to celebrate the small moments rather than allowing the overall flow of the day to crush me. Mostly. I was about as crushed as I could get today and then I decided to just take it moment by moment (day by day was just too much for me right now, laugh if you want). Anyway, right now is one of those moments. It's 20 min before ( Read more... )

I'll probably be writing a lot while Bruce is gone. One, to track how I do so I can figure out what works and what doesn't with the boys when he is gone (he has a multiday training coming up sometime next month whee!) and to vent someplace safe so the boys get the best of me and not the worst. So I'm sorry, I really am. Feel free to filter me ( Read more... )

So Bruce is off. We went from there to Starbucks and got a muffin and some bottled water for the zoo. The boys liked that. Then we went to the zoo (it is so nice and quiet when it first opens!) We were able to park in the very front & no waits for anything. The boys rode the carousel 3 times! (I had a couple of leftover tickets so it wasn't ( Read more... )